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      Guns, God and Government — The Coming of White Minority Rule?
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      Red Pop and Freedom: How (And How Not) to Celebrate Juneteenth, a New Federal Holiday
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      We Can’t Spiritualize Our Way out of American Polarization
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      Convergence of Far-Right, Anti-Democratic Factions in the Northwest Could Provide a Model for the Rest of the Nation
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      First Roe, Then Contraception: Unless Action is Taken, Supreme Court is About to Strike Down Fundamental Rights of American Women
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      Student Expelled from Sorority for Transphobia Illustrates the Problem with Evangelical Understanding of Pluralism
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      It’s Time for Democrats to Read the Bible Verses on the Wall and Stop Courting White Evangelicals
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      We Can Finally Put the Lie to Trumpism: 5 Myths Debunked By a Biden Victory
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      The Breaking of Biblical Womanhood: The Problem With the Hot New Book Taking Aim at the Subjugation of Women in Evangelicalism
    • I’m Not Here to Fix Evangelicals, But to Show Them Who They Are: An Interview With the Author of ‘White Evangelical Racism’
      I’m Not Here to Fix Evangelicals, But to Show Them Who They Are: An Interview With the Author of ‘White Evangelical Racism’
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      How the Study of Evangelicalism Has Blinded Us to the Problems in Evangelical Culture

Hans-Georg Moeller

Hans-Georg Moeller is senior lecturer in the Philosophy Department at University College Cork, Ireland. His publications on Daoism and social systems theory include The Philosophy of the Daodejing as well as a translation of the Daodejing, Daoism Explained: From the Dream of the Butterfly to the Fishnet Allegory, and Luhmann Explained: From Souls to Systems.

New Books, RD10QMay 12, 2010

Morality is Not Necessarily Good

By Hans-Georg Moeller

Ten questions for philosopher Hans-Georg Moeller whose new book explains how the language of morality, or of ethical purity, distorts our ability to tackle the toughest social and political problems. 

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